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In The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle goes inside some of the world's most successful organizations - including Pixar, the San Antonio Spurs, and the US Navy's SEAL Team Six - and reveals what makes them tick. He demystifies the culture-building process by identifying three key skills that generate cohesion and cooperation and explains how diverse groups learn to function with a single mind.

Dr. Jwing-Ming Yang is a martial arts practitioner, instructor, and founder at Yang's Martial Arts Academy (YMAA). The taller the growth, the lower you bow. The more you learn, the more you should be humble.  Dr. Jwing-Ming Yang - Episode 560 There aren't many guests here in the show who grew up in uniquely difficult situations and our guest is one of them. Dr. Jwing-Ming Yang grew up in wartime where 15 year-olds like him at the time were required to learn martial arts and conditioned to fight whenever required. Later on in his life, Dr. Jwing-Ming Yang found himself studying PhD in ...

Mr. Andrew Marley is a Martial Arts practitioner and instructor at Mission Martial Arts in Kentucky. I’m definitely one that likes trinkets and marks on the wall that says “we’re growing”. So I think about my next belt so I’m working towards that. But it’s the everyday experience that’s what drives me and not the belt. I want it, I like it, but it’s the everyday Journey… Mr. Andrew Marley - Episode 678 Starting in Martial Arts later in life could have both negative and positive effects depending on people. Mr. Andrew Marley, an athlete who played college basketball and ...

Mr. Dan Millman is a former world champion athlete, author, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor. To me, I was an athlete so I appreciated sports. In sports, you could lose a point or lose a match. In Martial Arts, it comes from a more sincere lineage. Where before it was a sport, it was about life and death. So, no martial artist could simply focus on physical skill alone. Mr. Dan Millman - Episode 672 For a person who doesn’t like to hit and be hit, boxing wasn’t the thing for him. Mr. Dan Millman found Judo growing up for the same reason that many of us...

In this episode, listen in as Jeremy and Andrew ponder on the Bucket of Crabs analogy in Martial Arts. Bucket of Crabs - Episode 659 Have you ever seen one of those buckets of crabs in a seafood market? You may notice that the sellers don’t need to put a lid on. Why? Because almost no crab ever gets out. How does this analogy apply to Martial Arts and its practitioners? In this episode, Jeremy and Andrew talk about the Bucket of Crabs analogy in Martial Arts and why martial artists almost always hold someone back so they can’t go past them. Listen to this episode and join the ...

The world changed over the past two years. It wasn’t the big bang, EMP, or comet strike so many had planned for. It was worse because it was so avoidable, like a major corporation going bankrupt out of bad decisions and neglect. When the funds dried up and all the political machinations failed, nothing remained but the people. Left to their own devices, what sprang up more resembled the Old West of the 1800s.

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America suffered blow after blow of internal strife, work stoppages, police shootings, riots, and immobilizing national discord. The riches of the country attracted international villains who eyed the country like a wealthy home with an open front door. Hit with a massive EMP strike, the West Coast from the Pacific to the Mississippi was left a wasteland of gangs, violence, and burning homes.

The nation has fallen and is divided into two halves. Vince and his cohorts have a problem to deal with - in regards to the professor and the FEMA camps....